Ocean (Jifij gentind.

rCBLiKIIKD WEULT AT

OCEAN CITY. N J, t C. 80BHDI, ailurnl * 1 *° r* im J

•' M - •Tw^r.

Bettaurani*. r—

MARSHALL'S

DINING ROOMS

•■•R I-A Dll;* and UK*TM.

No. 1321 MarkeL Street,

T1, r*» Do«r. »«, PHILADELPHIA.

^ • litornsyi-at-Ijuav. M' ^can hand,

attorney and

,i T •»»-«- .nd

"O. 7*1 AfcBU'*'

^MAYCH.Xr

D R - J- E. PRYOR

uian^, Drugitt*, E/e. ■ ]■ S. WAGGONER,

L- uv OFFICES

SenavL-ER G. WooDRauu

JONATHAN HAND, Jr., A.ttorney-at-1-nw, SOLICITOR ARO MASTER IN CHAUCER!.

Notary PuUic,

•APE MAY COURT HorBE, N,J.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,

Orc-an flgy. Ji. j.

Tbelxdt

T.C. HUTCHINSON. M.O. .'.:i * I om<eo)>n thiMt.

MEiinrniE mt mi By LOCIE ET DEA5E. fthpillcLt .f,,., Icoimacea.j

Tenth St. and Asbury Ave.

' OCK*» CITV. »|. j.

K.v1,knt Pin dician. Ijite of Phil-

JTRICm TEMPERANCE. KSAL8 to OHHt» FHOII . a. a. TO R p J, »>i»wrn.. Will, tlirce VeKe- ' '^ > ' L

H-'KKY S. DOUGLASS, D R - WAL TER L. YEKKF.S,

DENTIST,

OounMelloi*-ut-I

Dloneni, & r i ceot* ‘ —r—» likV^fo^' 1 " U, ^ uin ' home. MASIEB CHANCERY, NOTAtY PUBUC, SEAVILLE, CAPE MAY CO., N> J.

PURE SPRING WATER.

A1.1. AfttBT.

n ErxUy of r»ch '

(Xmlmciors mu! Builder*. S. B. SAMPSON,

Tu<?kaho6. N. J.

-"rii;"" —— j C. K. CIlWAKIM. J. C. Ct-RKV. i DRS. EDWARDS&CURRY;

-DF.XTISTS.PhiladelphftA, Pa.

I’lnMerer* and Brick-Isiyer*.

atostatu.

J-A

BAKERY, o. =. d.va.i-aun, __

601 SouthTwentj-^econdSun-t. Gontraotor and gnitddr *T0NEHIU & ADAMS, T- - . . PtaUM.. . 1

O. O. ADAMS There mrt tu, i

bytiiat egr.-w.

miglit

Ice < ream. Area, Frozen

Fruit* and J el lie*.

EoteruiD- JOSEPH F. II i\0.

archi i ect

NOTHING SOLD OR DEUVERi£ ON SUNDAY. y Wallace s. kisi5:> . R.EA.1^ KSTA.TI-:

„ , J throng li

re.«e.i r *.j. * , * , ‘»er,ii K . Ita.i^e ftettlur, *r „„„„ 7, BrleU Idayinir, Ae had bo* Ut a dl»tnTb.-.i g»-1

dto. I-..,i.. .i-, .* ^ e • » -

l. _ "* ,n , * ,a, ' cd — — •“»>. ! iranniig. liMi wn» S, g ',‘' niC * * m * r ‘ *<*' cortaiwd ^

j ss - sr-Tnrcf ^?: I j ^r.

: ,:s.,r 2;

• » nnniUrr ,a | a qoart.-r of a mile diatam. I ‘ nJ.

•If Its... tw-o T'here w» liatiln t..!«. . f!»w in »h:« i which nr inti me U.

h«ic. for In. might h«A Tanrd hi. pro -I ~

■ rTTtf mV- I •* ‘ hB P 1 **^ th. grJt^y ' , “ ,: ‘- r I h*’ aftshtMi. A Taria- ot cue •—?-

a bnidnec. »»•- Yiun ot ten miantm ciih.* way would in» .JtZ,

oth r»—~ ROarck-il from 1 throw mvralrnl.iioo.oo. .j -iTl. . ! “* “. ,bl

j Klnmpiug off dowu town. .. .. rcrol pi*,.. , -

•e he i

j Cllhiir way would I ins of the nerond

j I *22 ^ r —- etoj-jatl | nuiuiwiun that they were oontinuallr ^ amre^rf^h! * 10 8 *" > ** tba t.«l. One anpeanag ,« my right and left, and it | “ *** "“ d ‘ ml T

■ m ~ a w ° m BiowUtg tu front of the cor-

OCEA3I CITY, K.J.

INSURANCE AOEN 1', “AMKF.T »T.. CAMDK

PETER MURDOCH, COAL and 'WOOD, Ooean City. N. J. OnUr, toft «l m A.bury avenue «UI re

D-S-SAMesorv, ,

Stoves, Heaters,Ranges, GEO, A, BOURGEOIS & SON, PUMPS, SINKS,, £C., Ciirpeutrrs and Bnildm. 6or. Fourth Street and West avenue, . ... , OCEAN CITY. N .I. * - |p ^t-tmate. giveo. ButUtny. erryted by «

S J|JEANDEK S: CORSON ^JRCHIXTECT, (HYTRi TOR T\ll BIILDHR. Ocean City, IV. .T,

CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Harry HEAUI ey

Oeenn < if y, j.

'7" Drowtro.! “ ockam CITV Hot Mi;. ■•Urfmetiw. ru.r«V^ ' '* | - i . , .. T'lT Anbury A.venue > leholna C'omou. . . . .. CARPENTER AND BUILDER. msTt "« OCEAN CITY, N. j. ^ J AH Unite or cemer.itac work and

• PU “ Bf'Ytl'^etmne

lurnieiied. Iiu.ttlin*. put up by eomnue or day

G. P. MGOBE,

Architect, Builder, FRAITICAIr HI. A TER,

Oeenn C’lty, X. J. et JtO"«tlar r 1 - - •

D. GALLAGHER,

DEALKKIK

FINE- FURNITURE, 43 South Second Street,

rUlloAOKI.PHI*. PA.

L. S. SMITH & <’<).. tat Emn «««iisiiimcE bseits.

inr.A tm i:\t

Iiy

INHALATION I 1529 Arch St., Pbilad’a, Pa. I »r( onnuinpllon. AreiDaniu. Broil ehtlln. I»j apyprelaa. ( aaLarrh. Hay ►'ever, Heactachr. IK-Iililij. M tana ana ttaana, Mruralgla. •1 nd all Chronic an Xervoux Disorders.

■rlotikod that had

'— ‘- •‘■a aafiew u wunld have i » ytt ngnihwl Bottling. f.«- tin. prrcantiie,. i DI T cmi-tit taken at all *nch hotel* againrt rohh. rv ! ,0 Woold hare tnade it iiii|Hea,ihle for a ' ‘

UNwkthuf to fitter and hare without ;22"",^ r - i him” ’ ^ ' "waking I learned wlmoocnpled the adjoining

■oiU and ai«rtn>ent«. Ko ennuid fur UD '« fo.picion tht-re. ; w< To all in fat

•• ' IwTOHkn-

I mad him, tm

I hati N

r. !ut.

iyd nigiita o. It wynld

| dritt-r

I could'w, ii ! The fir-1 ||,

they might take a differ-

. 1 ' rl 1 U ‘ K,i ' 1 ‘ h »*. karing. tahliebed tiro fa-t that nonnehad enu od the rooms white be wa. a*J«m t UI otm eoodmion was ineritahle. H« had ^ robbed himaa-lf. It is nntwu„, m m,m lur : a pcnuai who has never shown roranam- ! I-uiiet lo tmdencie. to develop then, i through eome unusual cause. The pusrowucm of ij, e ru! ,j til|, d lh „ ,, rain „ f | hit. Bandboeen for the time to the ex- !

cluhiun ,d almost every other thought | ~ w “J Ihcre would have been nothing .trance : UIQ ' t l,, ' , had be risen in the night, taken the j U "' ir atone from it. box and roneealed it • * u 1 i P , »a<I aomewbere without retaining the faint- I U U d " 1 est n-collee-tiou when be awoke. nnnt with the < My Uieory wa» that he had riacn ! ? ,nch iutereeud.

^ewd lumrolf for the street and gone I The b ‘ ,Dr ' dragg.-d .lowly br, the out taking tm. ruby with him. When i ^aln. .topping frequently. U, eh .raobo return.,!, he arraaged everything a. i ,w “““P-H'd me to keep at a di«a»ow ItWHtefore. cren toMMlB^OTSihotl ner.r sigh, P „, my Ubm«

and managed io gain a fair sight 0 f the

ill of hope . .'ailing for it

t be would let any job slip interfere with hi, eugage-

vrhum I wag 80

STEELMAN & ENGLISH, ’ Ple.~. yeegt IBT Hueer. rrauiud. for n,, I reuorert Weof happu,^, ..d b-.lth and Tllal 'rt.mi. r' v^o m*' Con>t».uii«l Oxyg. n ho.

N J {Contractors-Builders,

Ocean </Hj , X. J.

»y tr

alHigaorklu* dra.h,^ ™

OCEAN CITV

PAUrriSO BY CONTRA Cl Baker*, Urooert, Etc. JACOB SCHUFF,

THE'PIONEER^ BAKERT,, *° '2£SZ.lr m ' J. L - HEADLEY,

L ■■ BI8B JAMIE NAGBCDRH, hwk promjaty attnOH to rsnUa* . _ _ ~o.k it.ii.

ISRAEL G. ADAMS ft CO, ! ITetnre Iralnro. U'l„- » rl.-ti! iiIhid «U»rl„,l I

!‘ W “ «««. ••oVh'dlnX^trf' the door in place. He had lerttbs stone ramewhere else, and its disce.vcrr must

* 6 • tuatt.T of unoeTtaintT.

ThU thoory fitted the caw perfectly. tenable. In too room acrowi L." waa an old man, an invalid, who wa. attended hy two trained nur**. l u obedience to hi. whim the door of the room

* , | ,0 . ,be ‘‘ al1 was kept open all

Bight. The invalid's coouh was invisihlo to any oue pawing along the hall, Imt there wa, not a minute, throughout the whole night, when one of the nurse*

...... .m-v were oonnijually j sppronng on my right and left, and it I

that they and perhaps <4aors were en- 1 * Wl ‘ <1 gsged i 0 criminal bu-im— Kl— wh. i f , U,e ,VT 7 knowledge I waaseefctheir watchfulness againatcpuLge? { ,b ' in migl., .pwul.re’Var d .y, ~ ‘± te ‘ W oU "» ^

nature of that , wiaer. I < long to only one conelun. ft bail to do m aoroe way with Urn theft

of the Kana Kafaib ruby.

Clear on this point, it was fair to suppose that in coming Uj tbia euuntry place they would ee !: rwoe secluded building, « ,ih the tUi.gvr of detection

it wro

Idle to Ox attention upon any of the new. fine looking home* rear the highway. The fane where they stopped was

way from the road and had

...... u.auageo io gam a fair > passengers who <!i m mbarked.

It wa. wrorisome waiting, but jtwt a^ftwas beginning to grow dark my

rjjAPTKR X

The l-.an lii.li.m Was alcne. I waited t the lower end of the pUtform until - “W him walk bri.kly to tin, cah. which bad Isyrne him and hi. companion away some nights before. Then I hurried down the ■ tires* a. far as was prudent. At the Cr-lturn I psuwd, still

1 i _ *■— sowoa that I was sure no suspicion would at-

tach w.

: 1 wa. certain Dow of being able to i of the ,r " p * carriage a portion if not the

* :i us diataBaa

Mr. Bandbusen . apj

could bare entered or left

without being noticed.

bappeinrei that I knew one of the j ,r *°« ,b * carriage a potion!? mT tU

f’ n "“ * nd questioned him cloaely. H e whole distance.

bad been on duty from midnight tUI 4 D">u. Howard seemed to be in haste. “ d UuU, ‘ n K. He vouched ! V* ,be “ b rattled off at a lively pJe" Iw Jv .i, C T , ^. n ‘ an - wb° was ready to I* wheeled alTuptlyat my coroerTmd «re»x that the opposite dexw wa. c.,t "P , ' a du wu the avenue toward the open opened until fully W o'clock the foUow- : oooutry. with me following as fast aslf

I bo ‘ “>»«> wa. discreet IfTc^ld

»ww..sa .CTT«reK*oUf wrtww'dlawd^;: ij “*“ t » nln «. i *“■>» ..— rev^, him -etwee*”"to^ov COol<1 ***« **<* T " eX * ‘ Drb mad* -*'• * r ' <?» '-kk! I( », i sevTi tb * bnr glar for reason, already known. - cl ‘“ re of succe- was fair.

“"yw.d Hu- facts <t.,wu to this: " ntumi > light was closing In.

t mdoL.i'i, 1 ?’ Mr - had rol's-d himselt ! ^ ‘“upa wew lit and shining

m l . h ‘‘ t r" 1 ’ 7 T" wlU ,u b >» apart i f r.““'h" bou.'CS on the right and left; meuta. I have had some eip,rfenoe la | J l "' , *® • i, w “inutea the vehicle was bunting f.g object, mot h .mailer than ! 1 " - ron ' 1 ,d g 1,, . Two other cabs naithat, and, when I completed my exami- I" 0 while I waa hurrying on, and a fe nation of the roam* 1 waa at positive ball<lr ‘ ,d y»»<l« out I cams to a forkin that thT atone was not in anv of ,h. ‘ “* ^e w.va 1 atotnwTf. *I2f_ D

look aftei^L

- " M,i ">7 P»°« wlien oonfident of being near where the mb had left ita t**"enger and turned back. I waa twerIng to the right and left in the

en I ezrlyimod in an andertua Eureka! 1 have found it!"

t waa the very .put I had in ong lane, biwdned on each aide by tall shade lr.«* led to a house faliv too yard, distant from the main h ^^y and ao hidden among triMs, - learned, that, except In the w •on, ft could not bn ami l,v any one

paasing over tire r<«d. A

dwelling oootd not In brnnatm* learcb. and the sinrlikc twinkle the surrounding be.* showed the »•

to be occupied.

I turned into the lane, the cats uf Which must have been r. movT? lu thegloom, the conviction strong upon z,iTmLr * ^ ,mpor - To my wirpri.e. the wood of oarriage Wboel. broke the rtill,re«a A vehicle was coming from the bouse toward the 1 ^ «•« among the shatiow of the trees and waited. "PProaching, with the hone on a walk, „ if , be dnver r b “ be * rin P ,n * b » gloom, rrom that I decided that be not familiar with the place. The ohaourity waa so deep that I only caught tha outlines of vehicle, auimM and driver as they moved past, and

My man hummed the air of an opera, and now and then, when be removed bis cigar from bis mouth. 1 fancied ooev t* W»ioe that hewa. muturiug lohiiatclt But, th.iugn I strained my acuta —-v <* kearing. I did not cotoh a single word. So long us matters remained as they were, I would never be a whit the

wiser.

Finally he halted in front of the -eawet window and Mood looking off in the gloom. His cigar was nearly smoked

1 P !iff “* rapidly f, r a minute then fiong it. from him. It

fella.

But t

ful tliat it might reveal r

waa impos-i!

Tbeiudividnal's ham a. outlined bw fore the window waa that of a terra “d graceful mau. ju*t the site uf Hartas Howard, and be wore the nme kind ^“t- ”* TO P* lit lie doubt that Iteddi nly he wheeled and entered the -mro. the dan- opcuiug and closing ao quickly that my view of him gave me *o additional knowledge. -hating what step next to

t'HAFTEK XL

The new arrival was a dog of inr -aense sine. I liret beard a lew. threat -ta. j™.; „ 4 a,. i.n m» m i»a, •t my heel. One at the first thougbU oi • Yagrout in auproachiug a huuae it whether be i* likely tu oomo in ouatacl wtlh a camuo, but that dang** had not

Plumber*, Steam Fitters, Etc. J. T. BRYAN, N.. 1007 Ridge Ave Philadelphia. •uriil.Uar Bilisrm. Eints. Inih Tubs, 1

Real Estate! Insurance ^.OHnSTTS, Hum 1, < 11, tail aim t U. BaMfig. | ATLANTIC CITV, N. J. Commissioners ol Deeds for Pemi- 1

•ylvania.

Money to loan on Fjrst Mortgage. Lou for sale at Boutli AUantic City i M'CUIRE. HERITAGE ft COr, ' il>, (ra , dbuccistb 1 aiIid"chemists BELLEVUE HOT BA' 112 Market Street, Pnisdelphia. s«i«uel schubch, Do»lera In Pure Drue*, Cb.mlcml. Boord—slk. between 7th end 80, Si! Ireun,MriwnaP1nu,O0.ae.| n.. BwluTS^f bemin,.

Is Africa, a

Actleaaa* HeMUU" i» lbs law of a bock : of mo pars* publUbsd hy Drv Htorksy ft Paisa, a bleb rlvsa to all Inquirsrs full laformsi

Dpn. NTAKKFV A PAIsEX. 1529 Arch SL, PhlMtlpkii Pi. 120 Sstt.r SL, Sm FrucitM CiL

i»>«llive

“* • ,oue wa. nut in any of them

1 I:,rae,0 "forking

— __ lu m Ul e tn) uie wavs. I stuntwid. for there was V n J V” "attefied that it is not in the bo “™i« or knowing tnc ngnt course, hand which this minute is writing three P n * /"f tb *' f**d that s< vcrul vuhiclee weeds, it wasp,-nr. K<-aM,ningor ‘■ tbeo- j b " d followed the one I had in mind I

"P “K'dn.t a found the clew examin-

blank wall a thnnumt e—e *.«-u ing tho roadway, hut that aid waa not

at my command.

is ne sa-pt and robbed ^ tb ® riK, “ "O'* hfoko into a lopo. with such thing had been r * at " nd can aim. I was now in the 1 -1 , OM-n or.it—*— -■ •** D

..—„ . uruugni np agmi blmk wail a tlreuNsnd fret high. Put another way ft may bo said: Some one had entered Mr. bandbu rf * ru Y u, ‘ while he slept end robbed him, and yet no anek aktn. >—■ .

... u j,-, no socn unng pad be. deme. What a redootio ad absurduml Hud I not known of an absolute

. x WM u<nlr ^ ' l P cn l 00 “ ntr 7. * b < ro w a , no moon, and

—~ . uo. anown 01 an absolute ocr- ,n ® nl kht was studded with Ware, whioh Bdnty that Mrs. Howard was abeiut *!"® 0,7 00,7 K ,lid «- They showed me from Irew Vork. on tire night at the ob J e f‘" • di.ianoe of a few rod*, but robbery, she Would here been uanneoted ao " l,en was a carriage in right, in my mind sjith it. Not only she, bow- E I odd " cl 7 •>>« turn, of . man loomed ever, but her omcon^irator. was miles U* was owning toward me. awey at .the tim.v Therefore I was ,nd 1 dr, Tl“' d «•> a walk, «o as not to saved .a offenrive questioning of my £££!, wL *" , ‘ iclon ' H * advanred employer on tliat point. 7 0, ‘ 1 T F"** me a glonoe as If there ever w u . nonplused Indi- I! “1 ,rpar * lrd W“ b «.t greeting, vidual, I was tliat man. Th^ imimsaablo j'** 0 " 0 “* ‘‘W"* pnidvntl n-romed my

wail still confronted me. imseatiio lope.

1 did not cunfeM this to Mr. Band- 1 • l '”P ,, 7 tlropped to a walk at bueen, but it was a fact all the same. I • OTDd ,d at^age »l.eeta. approaoh-

«w. •owever, ah. ruth as a, •7 stgUon at al

.... u—, Mrearo roe

ire"» ■ b ~ -

around the raffway

of the day.

ia returning." I resumed my approach of the dwelltog. where . light gleamed from one at the windows As I drew near 1 kept among the shadow, as much as possible, far nothing W(u more probable ifau W *' r ‘" ,T w " un ’fa® "»« tor SM? K " b "nriar could nav® berm more guarded than I, and ^tTrlVT' 1 M l' h,n * dn *«> Tttrrisof 1 *“ D0 ‘‘ring

I apoke in a southing voice to tb< £R i*;!— “j «» for I was aukiooa to retkblirii fnrBdft relations with him, hut he knew bu duty, and hie mauucr boesnie su tlireaieuing that I saw I must n-treai. ft wai clear that he meant ' bu.iuero," and the safest place fir me w as somewhere It would not do to break into a ran, for nothing inspires a dig with more

**'— tlit. Sight of a fleeing peri the sum., if the pursuer is

“—“ » -icd to walk with a rertain dignify, uttering all the owciliab^yex-

But 1

—- —-i- -t my !.aik: ana mot grow], showed that ho was in no moo to be conciliated. Ho knew 1 was a intruder, and he mu»4 h.ivv been laugh to adopt summary ne-j-ort* with p«r •UBS of that ilaea Ho k. pt i Km to me «H1 growling, and eumed to he trytrq to settle in hi, mind tin. beet method ■ making an "Hack. Thu. matter, atom when w e reached the hied of the sr* nue and I walked briskly toward tm

highway.

How 1 yearned to break into a rat and dash with speed of the wind to the main road | link .printar though 1 was. A could he no match for fangs erea-

The lane which I had followed to that

point bad n v A .«* on ether ride, nor ZV, It” , a .’ ' ,<!rr '“0>iding the boure, wbiih, a, 1 have stated, stood among a proup of tries, v,nne of which mu,t

bare been 100 ywir. old. The

tnd«l among three, though the way “ l,,n ; ' b ® --fa' ot the dwelling ^ 2 1— -u Mu ,. v ..u.

* the fact, which I giv^ ft

Till bo understood, were learned afterward. The house w as a very old one, made of stone, with a broad yt—